This could be a faster route to get your short-term rental up and running.2.Look for Motivated Sellers:In the current market, there may be opportunities with motivated sellers who are willing to negotiate on price or terms.

I agree that Zillow may not be the best for management/screening, but they are good at marketing.

These are primarily for "off market" purchases.TOP 10 Motivated Seller Lists - Try each of these Driving for dollars - (Finding houses that need a little lovin’ and contacting the owner) Propstream has an App that gives you immediate information on the property and saves it to your list.

Long term tenants in place currently paying below market rent at $1200/M.

This is not my favorite option as most real estate agents wouldn't know how to handle the marketing of a property with a tenant currently in it. 2) Find an investor friendly agent who might already have buyers looking for that type of property.

over the past 7 years I’ve had dealt with countless of bad contractors, several incidents with occupants of the neighborhood that the property is in ( once I walked in on squatters and got into a physical confrontation) , and of course the relentless pursuit of hungry investors calling me and any family member that tracing programs associates with me about wanting to buy my property all while dealing with a career/industry change and finishing college during a pandemic 😮‍💨.so here I am recent graduate ready to finally devote the majority of my focus to getting over my newbie investor hill.

So the lessons here are that until rates come down, most houses for sale at current market rates will not cash flow (well) where they are worth buying in todays market. 

I have been having issues recently with my PM software  TenantCloud not carrying my listing description over to all the marketing websites.

Also, I love the Jacksonville market.

Now if I compare this to the stock market, for this case we start with 12k also but this time our investment give us a 6% return every year for 5 years.